Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Ultimate Collection
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Actor: Khandi Alexander, Michael Beach, Robert Costanzo, Victor Brandt, Xander BerkeleyWriter: Todd McFarlane
Writer: John Leekley
Writer: Rebekah Bradford
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Hbo Home Video
DVD Reviews of Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Ultimate Collection
DVD Review: A dark and Gritty series...
Summary: 4 Stars
Spawn the Animated series is based on my all time favorite Comic Book Spawn, I've bin collecting Spawn Comics sine I layed my eyes on the first issue I read(Issue 2 I think)and is still one of my favorite series. The movie sucked ok. Everyone knows that so what's not to know but my god the animated series was incredible. Spawn in my opinion is one of the best comic book to an animated series ever. Everything about the animated series is amazing. The characters are wonderful and the villans are just plain wretched. I first heard about the series from a friend but I didn't believe him so he gave me a copy of the tape of the first season...I was simply shocked! This series was dark, gritty, sad, depressing, violent and just plain fun to watch. It really does like up to the comic book. The animation is Flawless and the story is just as good as the comic. The Spawn series is just fantastic. I taped every episode from all the season but Then forot those and went on to buy the Official VHS copies(I still have all 3 season on video and I simply love them and plan on getting it on DVD)and I love them! Spawn is a very underrated series that never got noticed cause it was played late at night. Come to think of it this and TV FUNHOUSE(use to be on on comedy central but got cancelled cause of low ratings)were played late at night.
After watching the whole 1st season of Spawn I heard about the second season premiering and I was pumped for it and started watching it again on HBO. But to make things better after a few months they decided to make a second season VHS so I immediatley went and baught the VHS copy of the 2nd season when I read about it on its website. The season just keeps getting better and better. And now the 3rd season which is probably the most darkest season of them all came out on HBO and then on to HBO official home video release and I baught that too.
I must say I am impressed with this show. All 3 season are brilliant and Todd McFarlane is a genious. This show was one of the best shows ever. This was one of the most darkest american animation to come out in the 90's too. For anyone who is trying to look for something different other then Simpsons and SouthPark this is for you. Spawn is a late night show on HBO so you'll have to stay up a lil late to catch it.
The only complaint I have is this show ended pretty badly on the 3rd season making me and other fans wanting more...It just ends.... Poor choice of an ending..I was really expecting another season but it's bin how many years since we saw another season?..5 years! 6 years once it's 05'. Unfortanatley McFarlane hasn't made an announcement on another season and I doublt we'll ever see one ever again. Plus it's hard to picture another season in 05 when you have shows like Sopranos Oz and all those other shows on now.. Lets hope they do bring back another season...
Here is how I rank up the seasons
Season 1 was pretty violent and dark
season 2 had less nudity and no sexual content at all but had some pretty graphic violence and lots of profanity
season 3 had all of what season 1 had but in a more less extreame way..
Overall My favorite season would have to be season 2. It was the darkest of them all for me eventhough it's said that season 3 is the darkest season.
Overall...
Spawn is a very gritty tale of what the world is like and how and what a man like Al Simmons is Going through. The series is pretty depressing, I mean the guy was killed and sent to hell only to return to earth all messed up and disfigured. Eventhough he's suppose to be bad he's doing the world a favor and taking out the baddies but not without the consequences. The show is no holds barred, raw and sometimes depicts some graphics material only to make things worse for poor old Al. Spawn is dark, gritty, violent, and it is one of my all time favorites and that is why I give this series a
4.9 out of 5...
I didn't give it a 5 cause of the way it ended in season 3...
NOTE* Spawn is absolutley not for children. It didn't get its Mature Audience Rating for nothing. The shows content is worse then South park. This show does depict Graphic use of profanity, it has some pretty bad Nudity and some sexual content, and Violence is extreamly graphic(one episode were Spawn kills a thug by puncturing his Chains through a mans mouth and out of his skull..very Violent)and lots and lots of Violence like I said. Not for anyone under the age of 17 or 18...Lets put it this way...if this was a movie it sure as hell would have gotten an "NC-17" rating..
I also one to mention that this show is not longer on HBO, nor can you find it on any HBO channels, you'll be lucky if you DO find it.
Overall Awesome series
Description of Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Ultimate Collection
Todd McFarlane's SpawnAdult, stylish, and more than a little mean, this full-length animated tale has one very strong thing going for it--it knows how to milk "cool." The animation is superior to anything recently devoted to a superhero...or super-antihero, in this case. Al Simmons was a government assassin before he was burned to death and sent to hell (plot summary's starting out nicely, isn't it?). After making a particularly bad deal with the devil--to lead Satan's dark armies in exchange for seeing his wife again--Spawn is let loose upon the world. He immediately whacks three mob hit men, making his presence known and getting himself into all sorts of trouble. Spawn is also visited by the Clown, an obese, disgusting Beatrice, guiding our third-degree-burned Dante through this hellish, topside world. There are other nasty characters, but in this first segment a very gratuitous inclusion of a child murderer goes too far for even this mature fare. Spawn isn't fun; there's very little joy in any of this. But the point isn't fun--it's brutal, adult-comic style. And there's plenty of it. --Keith Simanton
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2
From the mind of comic-book maestro Todd McFarlane comes the second season of episodes of the animated Spawn. Highly stylized animation and provocative story lines make Spawn a sophisticated cartoon sometimes more appropriate for older audiences. Murder victim Al Simmons has returned from hell to earth as a "hellspawn," a soldier for the army of darkness sent to collect more souls for hell. In these episodes, Spawn meets the man who assassinated him and becomes suspicious of the organization that ordered him killed. Jason Wynn, the leader of the group, plans to sell weapons of mass destruction stolen from the military. Spawn's former wife, Wanda, has since remarried Terry Fitzgerald, with whom Spawn must reconcile. Terry is hot on the trail of the missing arms, and Wynn and his assassins, including the highly trained Merrick, set out to kill Terry, Wanda, and their daughter, Cyan. Spawn foils the plot while realizing the hard truth that Wanda has a new life. --Shannon Gee
Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle
The third chapter of this compelling HBO miniseries answers a number of questions--namely, who is the omnipotent old man who hides in the shadows and why is the mysterious Asian reporter (Jade) investigating the alley murders? Spawn has reached a crossroads, and he must choose between the forces of darkness and light. But it's not clear-cut: Al (Spawn) must deliberate over the seemingly minor differences that separate heaven and hell in his world. As a former assassin for the NSA, he "opened the eyes of hell" with his iniquitous deeds of depravity; therefore, his journey to hell was preordained. But this particular section of the series intriguingly asks, What if you had no choice, and killing was not just the only way out of a squeeze but was also your fate? Intellectual stuff, indeed. But as with the rest of the series, a profound metaphysical puzzle is brought to the fore without justifying it with an answer. It's frustrating, but also keeps you firmly planted in your chair, pondering conundrum after conundrum. --Jeremy Storey
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